[TriLUG] Laptop recommendations
Alan Porter via TriLUG
trilug at trilug.org
Sun Feb 19 22:05:04 EST 2017
> I think he's looked at those offered by
> Costco but he was underwhelmed by all of them.
For Christmas, I bought two Acer SP315's from Costco for my two teenage
daughters. I immediately erased Windows 10 and installed Ubuntu 16.10.
Before purchasing, I test-drove Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 on all of Costco's
laptops in the store using a live installer USB stick, and 16.10 seemed to
work fine on the Acer (16.04 did not recognize the laptop's wifi). These
machines have 16GB of RAM and 1TB HDD and a nice big screen.
It's only been a few months, but so far, we've had few complaints. The
girls know their way around Linux -- as consumers, not as engineers.
They can watch YouTube, do Google Docs for school, write papers or
even short novels using Open Office, edit audio/podcast files, and a lot
more.
We have had trouble connecting to our printer at home, but then so did
I on my Asus Zenbook. So they have a crazy/annoying work-around.
Alan
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